Lena Dunham Quotes
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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If I'm in America... I will track down the nearest Soul Cycle, wherever that is, and I'll just power through on a bike for 45 minutes.
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The Man of a Thousand Voices.
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I'm one of those guys like whatever the situation is, as long as people are cool and everybody is trying to be funny, I have a good time.
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
